Hey...sorry, stumbled across your LJ through random surfing... erm, just noticed you had a post about Neverwinter Nights. It seems that, although I know nothing about it, it's everywhere this weekend for me. But there again, I did spend the weekend reading all of www.megatokyo.com, which mentions it a fair few times...
Actually, I'm finding it hard to put into words exactly why I'm having such a great time with it. There's a lot of tactics to it I guess and a lot of head work - puzzle solving style stuff - that sucks you into the plot of the whole thing. From my point of view, since my computer reactions are pretty sucky, the fact that you don't have to do the actual fighting yourself is good - you just decide who you want to fight and then let the computer do all the dice rolling etc so you don't have to actually be able to hit things yourself. The in-game characters mostly have annoying voices but the interaction/conversation options in the game are really pretty good, especially the way you can get different options depending on how smart or charming you are. Plus, it is very gorgeous and looks amazing on my shiny new screen :)
I guess basically they've managed to pull off a really good accurate simulation of D&D and I enjoy it for most of the same reasons I enjoy real life roleplaying. If you like roleplaying then I would say that you'd almost certainly like Neverwinter Nights. If it leaves you cold then you're unlikely to go for it.
Also, hi :) Welcome to my journal - always nice to meet new people.
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Date: May 9th, 2004 03:42 pm (UTC)From:so, what's all the fuss bout this game?
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Date: May 10th, 2004 02:39 am (UTC)From:I guess basically they've managed to pull off a really good accurate simulation of D&D and I enjoy it for most of the same reasons I enjoy real life roleplaying. If you like roleplaying then I would say that you'd almost certainly like Neverwinter Nights. If it leaves you cold then you're unlikely to go for it.
Also, hi :) Welcome to my journal - always nice to meet new people.